No, it really wasn't. I think it's easy for foreign readers to misunderstand the all-ages readership of Franco-Belgian comic culture.

I suppose that she was technically not a child in anything but flesh.

I was surprised at "given the innocence of Tintin's world". Tintin's world was anything but innocent. Not many children's books deal with opium smuggling, slavery, banana republics and so on.

"He had a big floppy pancreas, Rose."

This does suddenly spring to mind. Still: improved, cheap vodka.

Christgau has a startling gift for succinctness, but he's so repulsively smug that I hate-read his reviews.

I just watch Sixteen Candles because it's funny as Hell. Yes, unfortunate racism, but oh man, so many amazing little moments and details in that movie that really do make it apparent how awkward being young is.

I'm really grateful whenever the AVClub makes mention of the A/V quality of whatever media release they're discussing.

There's plenty of it in Asia.

You can make any Vodka a premium vodka by passing it through a charcoal water filter once or twice.

I love 30 Rock and Tina Fey, but it's always hard to buy how "feral" the rest of the cast make her out to be.

Cambodia's small size as a nation has made the scale of the Khmer Rouge's atrocities seem less than they are. Reading the history of the regime is like horrific science fiction dreamed up by a psychotic misanthrope.

I meant in terms of percentages, and also the almost staggering madness of his methods. Reading about it, it's like crazy, horrible sci-fi.

Pol Pot.

Shakesville is, for a site claiming to be about tolerance and sensitivity, the single most hostile site I've ever visited.

As a once-goth-DJ, I can confirm that This Corrosion was the DJ's toilet escape strategy.

I'm torn between Marian and Ribbons.

Yeah, I think it's easy to miss that the movie is about Searching for Sugar Man, not about Rodriguez.

It's based on/pinched from a Ron Mueck sculpture.

Stanhope's latest is amazing. Genuinely breathtaking.